Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stands six foot three) won the respect alike of lovers and haters of the New Deal. In Washington he has been noted for two peculiarities, one literal, the other figurative: his flat feet and his level head. Last week at the time his article in Satevepost was doing a favor to Old Dealer Dawes, Jesse Jones was in Philadelphia, receiving an LL.D. from Temple University and doing a favor to the New Deal by expounding a practical man's reasons for supporting it. Said...
...suing Lawyer Williams and the three policemen for $25,000 damages for his arrest, put on his 1932 bathing suit, sploshed water on it, sprawled on the floor in Judge William J. Lindsay's Superior Courtroom in Chicago. The jury giggled and gaped, deliberated 95 minutes, decided in favor of Lawyer Williams but assessed $100 damages against the three policemen who had defaulted by not appearing...
Despite their continued favor for Republicanism at the polls 295 were generally favorable or felt stronger towards the New Deal, as against 248 who were unsympathetic or stronger...
Getting down to cases, 472 definitely oppose restriction of the Supreme Court to 37 in favor. For the S.E.C. 369 like it, while 44 do not. For the N.R.A. 107 want it revived, 307 want it revived partially; 206 do not want to see it again. An overwhelming majority of 512 favor the principles of the Social Security...
...Bill which would put the airlines almost entirely under the non-political jurisdiction of the I.C.C. This bill emerged from committee last week and is soon to face a vote. Few sincerely airminded persons in the U. S. oppose it. The Air Line Pilots' Association unanimously voted in favor of I.C.C. jurisdiction; all the airlines devoutly hope the McCarran-Lea Bill will pass. They have, however, been slow to say so because they fear offending the potent Post Office, which also has a bill in Congress-the Mead Bill giving it even greater power over aviation than...